Welcome to those of you joining me from My Dreams of Disney and those of you just hopping aboard. I am the 3rd stop on our Magical Blogorail. Most of the time when families are planning a Disney World vacation, their main focus is on making sure they have plenty of time to spend in Disney’s four incredible theme parks. And why not? The world-class attractions, live performers, shows, parades, fireworks and more that make visiting the Disney parks such an {Read More}
Hot Fun in the Summertime! Tips to Stay Cool in the Disney Parks
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Welcome to the first stop aboard Magical Blogorail Green. Enjoy the ride as we share our favorite tips to stay cool at Disney. This month we’re talking about all the ways to stay COOL during your summer Disney vacation. For many families with school age kids, summer is the most practical time to travel. Florida in the summer months means heat and humidity and many people head to Disney World anticipating the worst as far as weather is concerned. But {Read More}
How to Make Your FastPass+ Reservations Online
If you’ve made it this far, you’re doing great! Today we’re going to look at how to make your FastPass+ Reservations for your trip. In another post I’ve got a list of all of the attractions in Disney World where FastPass+ is a must. There are numerous attractions, especially in the Magic Kingdom, where FastPass+ is offered but definitely isn’t necessary. Until we know for sure that you can make additional FP+ reservations after you use your first three and {Read More}
How to Customize Your MagicBands
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Now that your resort reservation and tickets are linked to your My Disney Experience account, the next step is for you to customize your family’s MagicBands. What are MagicBands? MagicBands are “smart” bracelets that have been internally fitted with an RFID chip. The chip stores all of your vacation information and while on Disney property you use your MagicBand to unlock your resort room door, to enter the theme parks, to access your dining plan credits, to utilize the FastPass+ {Read More}
How to Link Your Resort Reservation to Your My Disney Experience Account
In order to go forward with your planning including making your FastPass+ reservations for your Walt Disney World vacation you will first need to link your resort reservation to your account. To do this, your will need your Walt Disney World reservation confirmation number. If you booked through me, I can supply you with this information. Otherwise, your confirmation number should be in the confirmation email you received from Disney. After you’ve created your account you can log in to {Read More}
How to Create a My Disney Experience Account
So you’ve learned all about Disney’s new My Magic+ program and you’re ready to create your own My Disney Experience account to start planning and customizing your vacation. The first thing you need to do is go to the My Disney Experience page (mydisneyexperience.com) where you will see this screen: Underneath the green Sign In button click ‘Create an Account.’ You will then see this screen: Complete the form with your personal details. You will also be asked to select {Read More}
My Magic Plus 101 – Everything You Need to Know About Disney’s Newest Invention
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In the summer of 2013, the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida began testing a brand new program called My Magic Plus (My Magic+), an almost $2-billion technology that has been in the works for quite some time. The goal of this program is to allow resort guests to have a completely personalized experience during their Disney vacations by creating customized itineraries and plans for their trips. Initially, a small percentage of visitors staying at select Disney resorts were able {Read More}
Fighting the Dark Side in Flip Flops
During our first couple of trips as a family to Walt Disney World, Hollywood Studios was the one park we left off of our itinerary. At first it was because I thought that the attractions focused mostly on thrill rides that my girls were too small to enjoy and theming and shows that wouldn’t hold their interest. While I remembered absolutely loving the glamorous, art-deco vibe of Hollywood Boulevard and the audio-animatronics of the Great Movie Ride back when I {Read More}
The Magic Kingdom Flag Retreat
One of my favorite things about a trip to the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida is the fact that no matter how many times you visit, you will always have at least one new experience each and every time. Our most recent trip in August did not disappoint and on our last day in the Magic Kingdom we were fortunate enough to happen upon one of the park’s lesser-known special events. Being that it was our last day, we {Read More}
Fireworks with Pirates!
One of my favorite parts of our trips to the Walt Disney World Resort is treating my girls to a special event–last time this meant a visit to the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique (if you didn’t know that the Bibbidi existed, just wait until I tell you about all the other unknown Disney magic that’s out there!). On our most recent Disney World vacation I decided to surprise them with a sail on the Seven Seas Lagoon to view the spectacular {Read More}
